todays special: yummy carrot potato soup

Family and friends are very supportive and excited about this cooking blog.

After telling my friend that i have decided to cook a carrot potato soup, she was little disappointed...but i am sure after she tries this recipe she will love it.

I made vegetable soup many times, but never made it with home made stock. So i have decided to make stock and then soup. You wont believe how quickly i could do it.

Ingredients: Stock
1 carrot
small red onion
1 small potato
1 bay leaf (add which ever spice you fancy and readily available)
1 star-anise
2 cloves
2 garlic pod
6 cups of water.
olive oil (again you can use vegetable oil or any oil readily available)
salt

In a heavy bottom pot, add about a table spoon of olive oil. Add bay leaf, star-anise, cloves, crushed garlic. You will instantly smell all the spices and its a great smell. Then add cut potato and carrot. I also added peels of carrots and potatoes from soup recipe ingredients.

Cooking is all about enjoying. Don't worry too much, stick to you instincts and add what ever vegetable/spice you feel like.

After cooking these veggies for few minutes, add water and salt. Bring it to boil. Let it simmer for another 10 minutes. Stock will reduce to almost 4 cups. That's it, stock is ready :)



Ingredients: Soup
3 carrots
2 medium size potatoes
2 red onions
2 garlic pods
fresh black pepper
olive oil and butter
Yogurt

Peel carrots and potatoes (I added these peels to the stock)

While your stock bubbles away, cut garlic, onions,carrots and potatoes.
add a table spoon of butter and little olive oil to a deep pan. Once butter melts, add garlic and onions. lets onion cook until they become transparent. When they start to brown, add carrots and potatoes. Cook for 5 minutes. Once they become soft, add the stock (by this time stock would be ready) and ground pepper. Bring them to boil and let it simmer for few minutes under low flame.



let the soup cool for sometime and then mash it either with blender or mixer. I use a hand blender and its very convenient. I recommend everyone to buy one. I use it for so many things, i wonder how will i manage without it.

Yummy soup is ready!


Garnish it with yogurt and you can have it now.

Soup consistency and taste were great. But it was heavy on stomach than i expected.


My one year old son was more excited about soup spoons than the soup itself.